News & Stories
Announcing the 2022–2023 IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives!
We are delighted to announce the IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives for 2022–2023. These self-initiated groups represent some of the most innovative work at the University. Their work—be it the development of a performance piece, the exploration of a concept or research area through different disciplines, or the creation of a supportive intellectual community—exemplifies synergistic interdisciplinary activity, and transcends departmental structures.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities
Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities. Together with over 30 collaborators, they presented the event Light in the Well, a multi-sensory event that uses music as the storyteller to honor people with disabilities and their families, share their stories, and spread hope to others who are on the same journey.
Announcing the 2021–2022 IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives!
We are delighted to announce the IAS Research and Creative Collaboratives for 2021–2022. These self-initiated groups represent some of the most innovative work at the University. Their work—be it the development of a performance piece, the exploration of a concept or research area through different disciplines, or the creation of a supportive intellectual community—exemplifies synergistic interdisciplinary activity, and transcends departmental structures.
Preservation that Begins with People
What happens when you turn historic preservation upside down? School of Architecture Associate Professor Greg Donofrio—also a former IAS Advisory Board member—began his career by looking at historic buildings and working backwards to people who care about buildings. “Whereas now,” he says, “I am interested in forming relationships with people and working backwards to the places they might care about in the built environment.” As he’s followed this new direction, he also co-founded the Heritage Studies and Public History graduate program, which began as an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, and strives to add diverse perspectives to conversations about history and preservation.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: ArTeS
Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative ArTeS, an emerging, intercollegiate initiative that centers the arts in Art + Technology + Science collaborations at the University of Minnesota.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Afrofemininist Transatlantic Collaboration
Introducing Afrofeminist Sound, Touch, and Speculation in Brixton, UK and North Minneapolis: A Transatlantic Collaboration, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative dedicated to asking how Afrofeminist collaborative artmaking serves a critical function in the formation of diaspora as both political aspiration and solidarity for feminist futures in urban settings.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science
Introducing Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Arts and Science, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative dedicated to exploring how an interdisciplinary understanding of memory and traumatization can illuminate pathways between artistic production and healing.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium
Introducing the Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium, which proposes a model of intersecting, interdependent, and flexible leadership to continue to explore and expand capacity for critical disability studies (CDS) at the University of Minnesota.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Project for Advancing Health Care Stewardship
Introducing the Project for Advancing Health Care Stewardship, which facilitates social conversations about health and health care stewardship in order to rebuild and maintain an efficient, effective, and sustainable system. This community-driven team incorporates perspectives from evidence-based practice, narrative medicine, behavioral health, sustainability, and community engagement.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond
Introducing Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, which is motivated by its concern about the Korean Studies’ disciplinary limitation in addressing gendered violence and about the issues of colonial legacies that have shaped area studies in the U.S. academia at large.